JULY 2010
 
   
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Feature Article  

Are You Invisible Online?

New technologies are popping up all over the internet, giving small businesses many choices and opportunities to build a solid online presence.  The flip side, however, is that if you have been neglecting your website, ignoring your current search engine rankings, or procrastinating about social networking, it’s likely that your small business will be left behind.

So what can you do to create a strong online presence, become visible to customers looking for your products and services, and stand out at the top of the search engine rankings? 

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Marketing Tips  

5 Tips for Creating Successful E-Campaigns

Creating a successful e-campaign is very different from other forms of online marketing, and requires specific knowledge in order to create emails that will be delivered, opened, and acted-upon by recipients. With our inboxes overflowing everyday with junk email and unwanted “spam,” you need to know how to make your email stand out in the long list of messages waiting to be read, and also how to create an email that will motivate recipients to take the action you want them to take.

Here are five tips that can help you create effective, successful e-campaigns that will get opened and get results for your business:

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Building Effective Web Sites  

Website Usability – What Your Site Needs

Once you are able to get visitors (web traffic) to come to your site on a regular basis, the real challenge can be in keeping them there long enough to explore your site, see your value proposition, and find what they are looking for. Better yet – if you can get them to do something; like sign up for your newsletter, call your toll free number, or make a purchase, then you have a site that converts and contributes to your bottom line!

But what happens if visitors can’t accomplish their goals once they get to your site?

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Featured Service for July  

New Maintenance Options

How great would it be if you could just hand over your website updates and have them done professionally for you - at a price you can afford? What if you could choose from 17 different marketing services to be performed each month - on that same affordable plan - and it included unlimited tech support at no additional cost?

Well, that would be awesome, right?

Check out our new support & maintenance options to see how easy it is to protect your web investment and take your business to the next level with one affordable plan!

Find out more at this link.


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Contact us today at editor@fivesparrows.com, or call us at 877.451.0145 to see how we can help your business!


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Are You Invisible Online?

5 Tips for Creating Successful E-Campaigns

Website Usability - What Your Site Needs

Featured Service
for July:

How great would it be if you could just hand over your website updates and have them done professionally for you - at a price you can afford?

Find Out More >>

 
NEW at Five Sparrows:

New Content Management System makes it easy for clients to make web updates!
MORE >>

Social Networking Q & A
Find out what questions we were asked during the Social Networking Tour in May.
MORE >>

MORE Social Networking Seminars requested as a result of the 2010 Social Networking Tour in May! Watch for our summer schedule coming soon.
SEE TOUR MICRO SITE >>

 
Tip of the Month:
Facebook Privacy

Are you concerned about your privacy on Facebook?

Now it’s easy to evaluate your privacy settings by visiting a site called Reclaim Privacy (www.reclaimprivacy.org).

This site offers a browser bookmarklet link that you drag to your browser’s bookmark bar, then log in to your Facebook account.

Once logged in, just click on the link in your bookmark bar and a new window pops up displaying all of your Facebook privacy settings.

Simply click on the blue boxes and you can change or fix any privacy issues that are identified.